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Sunday 1st June 2008 at 3:00 p.m.

Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire

The Lass of Richmond Hill — music for the Georgian Theatre

Leeds Baroque Orchestra, Directed by Peter Holman
with Rachel Latham (flute) and Philippa Hyde (soprano).

 

  1. William Boyce (1711-1779): Symphony no. 1 in Bb major (1760)
    2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo
  2. Thomas Arne (1710-1778): Cantata The Morning (1755)
    soprano, flute, strings, continuo
  3. John Stanley (1712-1784): Concerto in D major, op. 2, no. 1 (1742)
    2 violins, violoncello solo, strings, continuo
  4. Thomas Arne: What tho’ his guilt from The Desert Island (1760)
    soprano, 2 flutes, continuo
  5. William Boyce: Rise, tempests, rise from Corydon and Miranda (1750)
    soprano, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo
  6. Thomas Arne: Where the bee sucks, there lurk I from The Tempest (1746)
    soprano, 2 flutes, strings, continuo
     
    INTERVAL
     
  7. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Sinfonia in Bb major from Solomon (1749)
    2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo
  8. Thomas Arne: Cantata The Lover’s Recantation (1761)
    soprano, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo
  9. William de Fesch (1687-1761): Concerto in D major, op. 10, no. 7 (1741)
    flute, strings, continuo
  10. Charles Dibdin (1714-1814): The Matron’s recitative and aria from The Ephesian Matron (1769)
    soprano, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo
  11. James Hook (1746-1827): The Lass of Richmond Hill (1789)
    soprano, 2 flutes, viola solo, strings, continuo

Harpsichord detail “What an exciting ensemble, music cunningly articulated …every work delivered different colours and emotions.”
Yorkshire Post